Meeting professionals face a daily deluge of email. Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE, Bondurant Consulting, shares her best advice for efficiently providing quality responses that will get read and be easily understood.
The Professional Convention Management Association's 63rd annual Convening Leaders conference, held at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center from January 6 to 9, 2019, was full of interesting elements and big-name speakers. Here are...
When I started as an editor in the meetings industry, my job and your job were worlds apart. Twenty years ago, a Venn diagram that illustrated the overlap between making magazines and orchestrating meetings and conferences would have revealed just...
The Society for Incentive Travel Excellence has added industry veteran Tahira Endean, CMP, DES, CED, to its management team as head of events. Most recently Endean served as event producer for the #BCTECH Summit and has recently published her...
There is at least one rule of orchestrating a conference that you can absolutely, positively count on: Something will go wrong. When it does, who do you want on your team, the person who makes excuses and looks for blame, or the person who’s...
